POSTMASTERS IN SIOUX COUNTY


CANNON BALL POST OFFICES
Name Title Date Appointed


******** Morton County ********
Rich M. Johnson 6/21/1880
Robert B. Goudreau Postmaster Cannon
Postmaster Cannon Ball
10/12/1889
11/19/1889
John C. Leach 5/10/1900
Alma J. Parkin 9/27/1902
John Gayton 9/8/1913
-- Closed 31 March 1915 --


******** Sioux County ********
Chester R. Wilcox Postmaster - Hekton 6/27/1913
-- Hekton Post Office Changed to Cannon Ball - 3 December 1915 --
Chester R. Wilcox Postmaster - Cannon Ball 12/3/1915
Guy A. Snell Postmaster 9/11/1919
Mable E. Erickson Postmaster 1/29/1920
Mabel H. Underhill -- NoteMabel Ryan married Edgar Forest Underhill, a merchant and hotel operator, who died in 1947. She then married Lee Nichols of Bismarck and moved to California where Lee died in 1966. This writer could not find any information on her after Lee's death nor any children from her marriages. Postmaster 10/2/1920
Irvin T. Young Postmaster 2/2/1931
Mrs. Marcella Wicks Postmaster 6/30/1933
Russell A. Kern Postmaster 10/15/1930
2/23/1934
John M. Stiles Postmaster 1/1/1935
Forest Otis Postmaster 8/5/1935
Lloyd R. Martinson Postmaster 12/13/1965


FORT YATES POST OFFICE

(Replaced Standing Rock Post Office located in South Dakota portion of Standing Rock Reservation)

Name Title Date Appointed
Henry Sidney Parkin Postmaster 5/7/1879
David R. Mead Postmaster 12/3/1879
Samuel A. Faulkner Postmaster 3/19/1883
Watson P. Gilbert Postmaster 9/15/1886
John H. Coles Postmaster 11/8/1887
George J. Douglas Postmaster 9/2/1889
Walter Graham Postmaster 12/3/1891
John M. Carignan Postmaster/Various 7/19/1911
3/30/1917
11/26/1919
1/1/1923
2/27/1923
2/28/1925
Gus W. Hokanson Postmaster/Various 3/1/1926
7/1/1926
1/17/1927
2/21/1931
James R. Turner Postmaster/Various 12/1/1933
6/1/1934
6/13/1938
Mrs. Luella J. Hokanson Postmaster/Various 10/29/1942
7/7/1943
Mrs. Dorothy M. Stiles Acting 2/28/1955
Edward Barth Postmaster 7/28/1956
Janeanne C. Bischke Postmaster 7/4/1987
Claudia L. Bell Officer-In-Charge 2/22/1989
Maria H. Hagel Officer-In-Charge 3/2/1989
Curtis A. Elk Postmaster 4/22/1989
Michelle Hanson Officer-In-Charge 9/13/1996
Maria H. Hagel Postmaster 12/7/1996
Paul F. Lofgren Postmaster 1/11/2014
Albert A. Alvarez Officer-In-Charge 6/6/2016
Rebel McKenzie Postmaster 6/25/2016


SELFRIDGE POST OFFICE
Name Title Date Appointed
Eben W. Philput Postmaster 5/20/1912
Anna B. Cummings Postmaster 1/17/1913
Elizabeth E. ReedThe Sioux County Pioneer reported on 26 February 1915 that after a falling out with Martin Swift, her husband (L. A. Reed, former owner of the Reed Hotel) wanted out of the county so Elizabeth unexpectedly closed down the post office and they left the county.
Postmaster 7/14/1913
Birger L. Smestad Postmaster 2/6/1915
James N. Fulton Postmaster 5/12/1919
Freda Myers Acting Postmaster 6/1/1921
Mrs. Grace M. Anderson Postmaster/Others 3/13/1922
10/1/1924
1/6/1927
1/22/1931
William H. Byhoffer Acting Postmaster 12/7/1925
John A. Nagel Postmaster/Various 2/12/1935
8/27/1935
8/24/1935
2/29/1940
Mrs. Gladys Bachmeier Postmaster/Others 10/1/1944
6/4/1946
Almore Kentz Officer-In-Charge 10/7/1977
Mrs. Ruth D. Wingerter Postmaster/Various 12/16/1977
7/15/1978
Martin E. McFerren Officer-In-Charge 12/28/1984
Arthur F. Maxwell Jr. Postmaster/Various 2/16/1985
3/4/1985
Lenora K. Mosset Postmaster/Various 7/5/1995
12/9/1995


SOLEN POST OFFICE
Name Title Date Appointed
Almon H. Rogers Postmaster 2/9/1911
William L. Clark Postmaster 9/20/1911
R. B. McDonald Postmaster 4/10/1926
Paul F. Rice Postmaster/Various 10/28/1926
7/1/1929
Frank Seidl Postmaster 1/11/1930
James Zelenka Postmaster/Various 12/3/1930
2/21/1931
12/12/1931
Benno J. J. Schimansky, Jr. Postmaster/Various 4/1/1933
5/22/1934
8/6/1934
4/27/1935
9/7/1935
7/28/1945
Mrs. Nettie E. Bruning Postmaster/Various 12/5/1948
3/2/1951
Edward Barth Officer-In-Charge 10/8/1976
Mrs. Bernice E. Walther Postmaster/Varioous 11/21/1978
4/21/1979
Margaret Hoffman Officer-In-Charge 8/31/1992
Donald R. Wilson Postmaster 8/7/1993
Billie Jordan-Oleyte Officer-In-Charge 9/28/2012


SWASTIKA POST OFFICE
Name Title Date Appointed
James C. Smith Postmaster 3/16/1912
6/16/1912

Sources:
United States Postal Service
North Dakota Place Names, Douglas Wick
John M. Carignan Obituary
Selfridge Golden Jubilee, 1911-1961
Selfridge 75 Diamond Years, 1986
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, National Archives